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Condition:Purple cloth-bound hardcover with bright gilt title to spine & gilt mortar-board to frcvr, slight rubbing to spine & corners, CLEAN & TIGHT in GOOD CONDITIION, two small bookshop stamps to fr.paste-down, in an unclipped GOOD DUSTJACKET, with some foxing

Description: This book concerns itself challengingly with some vital university issues.
It probes the origin of Academy, worries at the Untouchables - the Academics - and wonders about sacred cows: the lecture system, lecturers' competence and examination method.

Condition:Crisp white hardcover with title to spine & frcvr, no inscriptions, STRAIGHT, CLEAN & TIGHT in GOOD CONDITION, in an unclipped GOOD DUSTJACKET in a clear plastic protective covering.

Description: Collected for the first time, the work of these outstanding individuals includes work being done in business, academia & government environments such as mining, manufacturing, medicine, architecture, urban planning,pharmaceuticals, information technology

Condition:Red cloth-bound Hardcover with very slight rubbing to spine & corners, no inscriptions, Map to eprs, CLEAN & TIGHT in GOOD CONDITION, with an unclipped GOOD DUSTJACKET with a repair to a small tear top front fold-in and very slight edgewear.

Description: Stunning photographs that capture the colour and changing moods of the outback and Jocelyn Burt recounts some of her journeys and discoveries over the years of travelling the outback in an assortment of campervans. A great book for planning a journey.

Condition:Orange/red cloth-bound Hardcover with gilt title to spine, slight rubbing to spine & corners, no inscriptions, CLEAN, TIGHT & ROBUST in GOOD CONDITION in an unclipped GOOD DUSTJACKET with slight edgewear.

Description: Banfield and his wife moved to an uninhabited Dunk Island in the early 20th century, to retire from the complexities of town life and for his health. His dream of becoming self-sufficient and he was an environmentalist - well ahead of his time.

Condition:Cream cloth-bound hardcover boards with title to spine, slight rubbing to spine & corners, no inscriptions,STRAIGHT, CLEAN & TIGHT in GOOD CONDITION,in an unclipped GOOD DUSTJACKET with minor internal tape re-inforcements. With newspaper ephemera included

Description: A GOOD COPY of this important book about the censure of Prof. Orr by the Univerity of Tasmania and the censure in turn of Univ. Tasmania by the Federal Council of Australian University Staff Associations and many Federal institutions.

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Book Id: 02anf0663

Price: $SOLD 1113

Title: OUR YESTERDAYS
PHOTOGRAPHS of AUSTRALIAN LIFE SINCE 1853 Arranged by Irma Pearl with a commentary by Cyril Pearl

Author: edited by Irma Pearl with commentary by Cyril Pearl AUSTRALIAN BOOKS, NON-FICTION, AUSTRALIAN HISTORY, GOLD RUSH BOOKS, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

Condition:Gold/yellow illustrated cloth-bound hardcover with title to spine & frcvr, slight rubbing to spine & corners, no inscriptions, CLEAN & TIGHT in GOOD CONDITION, minimal foxing to one frepr, in an unclipped GOOD DUSTJACKET with slight rubbing and edgewear.

Description: From a gold coach of the feverish eighteen-fifties to the biplane that pioneered the England-Australia air route in 1919, this is social history in a new and fascinating form.
There is a vast amount of history in this collection, and quality photos.

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Book Id: 02anf0661

Price: $12.00

Title: A Season In India : Letters of Ruby Madden - Experiences Of An Australian Girl At The Coronation Durbar, Delhi 1903

Publisher: The National Trust of Australia in assoc with Helen Rutledge, Sydney, 1976, FIRST EDITION printed by Champion Press for Quadrant, hardcover 8vo with d/j, 240pp., B/W PHOTOGRAPHS, 1

Condition:Red cloth-bound hardcover with slight rubbing to spine & corners, no inscriptions, CLEAN & TIGHT in GOOD CONDITION, mustard endpapers, one page with slipped type, in an unclipped GOOD DUSTJACKET with slight edgewear.

Description: Madden wrote these letters when she was staying with friends in Bombay, Delhi and Simla (1902-3). The letters evoke the everyday life in the Raj, impressions of Lords Curzon and Kitchener, and reproduce her account of the great Coronation Durbar 1903.

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Title: Australian Colonial History : The CONVICT YEARS Transportation and the penal system 1788-1868 ILLUSTRATED in COLOUR

Author: Margaret Weidenhofer - journalist, editor and historian.
A etailed examination of the Convict System, Illustrated in colour and black and white

Condition:Pale olive green cloth-bound hardcover with title to spine & convict illustration to frcvr, slight rubbing to spine & corners,, no inscriptions, CLEAN & TIGHT in VERY GOOD CONDITION, in an unclipped GOOD PLUS DUSTJACKET with minimal edgewear.

Description: The Convict Years discusses the origins of the system, the arguments for and against its continuance, the operations of the variuous penal settlements, the work and life of convicts in the assignment system, escapes and punishments and the convict ships.

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Book Id: 02anf0652

Price: $14.40

Title: A PLACE OF PIONEERS : The Centenary History of the Municipality of Ryde, New South Wales AUSTRALIAN HISTORY SYDNEY

Author: PHILIP GEEVES RAHS, with a Centennial Message . . . From His Worship The Mayor, William Harrison

Condition:Blue cloth-bound hardcover with gilt title to spine & frcvr, slight rubbing to spine & corners, no inscriptions, CLEAN & TIGHT in GOOD CONDITION, without dustjacket.

Description: Ryde's early history from 1792 to 1870 was a gradual development from the slab huts of the first settlers to the emergence of municipal government,during those formative years the district's waterways remained the communication artery" a detailed analysis

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Title: HISTORY of Lake Macquarie NSW by Clouten REID'S MISTAKE 1967 FIRST EDITION Hc Dustjacket Photos & Maps OFFICIAL HISTORY

Author: by Keith H Clouten, BA ALAA, Librarian Avondale College. The History of Lake Macquarie from Discovery until 1890.AUSTRALIAN LOCAL HISTORY NSW

Condition:Crisp blue cloth-bound hardcover with bright gilt title to spine, STRAIGHT, TIGHT and CLEAN in GOOD CONDITION with no inscriptions, in a clipped,GOOD DUSTJACKET with minor rubbing and edgewear.